Fitness Expert Talks About Children and Obesity

As you may know, obesity is a growing problem in America’s adults and teenagers. A new study has shown that the problem now lies within children. Sometimes these children are as young as 3 years old. It might not seem possible but, almost two thousand children examined in a recent study found a surprisingly high number of overweight and obese children at just three years of age. The study was mostly focused on a group of children coming from income families in twenty large US cities. The children were born between the years 1998 and 2000. Their height and weight was recorded. Researchers found that close to one-third of white and black children were all slightly overweight to obese. This amount rose to forty-four percent when Latino children were tested. These high View the rest of this article